The only photo I could find from a New Year where I don’t have my eyes closed.

I don’t like making resolutions, mainly because they are broken within 2 weeks. However, I do think that January is a great time to reassess your current goals and objectives and see how you are getting along.

My heart and soul have poured in to the blog, since about September time (after all the illness bla bla bla) and it has shown, my stats have increased, comments have increased, and little secret DMs or emails have increased (which I loveeee).

Did you have a lovely Christmas? Have you consumed your weight in wrapped chocolate and guzzled copious amounts of champagne. Are you ready to do it all over again this weekend? If you follow me on twitter @phoebewedding, you will have seen some of these photos but its good to update everyone, whether they may care or not…

I got creative

Sent my list to “Father Christmas”

But Father Christmas came back with these…

Some Christmas Eve baking

Christmas Day

Chase got dressed up

as did Geoff

Dinner party

I feel like I am forgetting something? I think I got another gift? Hmmmm…Oh yeah….I opened this….

On the blog today is the winter wedding of Lauren and Jeremy from Maryland, this wedding is so unique to the couple, filled with personal touches and not traditional at all. I adore the stationery, Lauren has an art degree and designed it all herself. She opted for a 1950s inspired dress and they chose not to have a bridal party, flowers or formal attire, and they let their guests chose their outfits from any decade that inspired them. The ceremony included musical performances from friends and family and then their personal vows.

The reception was held in a theatre. Instead of a sit down meal, they opted for an espresso bar, candy, pop corn, trail mix, dessert, and then a film. I love everything about this wedding. It is so unique and it goes to show that sometimes you don’t need a million bridesmaids and a morning suit just to show everyone how in love you are.

Photography – Peter Bang Brides Dress – Dolly CoutureVenue – Weinberg Centre for the ArtsStationery – Lauren said “I designed the invitation, info card, and ticket in Illustrator, then had a metal plate for printing made from a PDF. My uncle pressed them on an old printing press that he owns.”

You should also have a look at their engagement shoot. It included coffee, chess and Harry Potter. I was sold.

As it’s a Wednesday I am handing these striped pages over to Rachel, who this week talks about the her year of being engaged

It’s been over a year since the big question, and now just over six months until the big day. I believe it’s tradition to start thinking about what you’ve achieved over the past year around Christmas, and so I will be no different. What I have learned since being thrown head first into the world of weddings?

To start with I was absolutely brimming with excitement. It sounds like a cliché but I really was one of those little girls who dreamed of their wedding, even though I was adamant I would never get married. Quite how I thought that was going to work I don’t know. I already had heaps of ideas about venues, decorations and how the day was going to work. I knew who I wanted there and what I was going to wear. The thing is when I actually started planning properly – rather than it being just the stuff of daydreams – everything got turned on its head a little bit.

Now one year later, our wedding looks a whole lot different to what I had in my head last December. And really, that’s not a bad thing. With all the big things ticked off the ‘to-do’ list and a whole lot more to do besides, our big day is really starting to take shape. I admit that we have compromised a little bit on some things to keep people happy but overwhelmingly it’s our day just the way we want it.

It probably helped that I’m quite a traditional girl at heart and I never entertained the idea of having anything but a church ceremony, speeches and all the trimmings. The church we have chosen was always meant to be as I was christened there and my parents were married there too. In fact, when I approached the church to ask if we could be married there I was told, “of course! It wouldn’t be right for you to be married anywhere else!” And quite honestly, it wouldn’t.

At the start of 2011, I was up to my eyes in wedding blogs and magazines. I couldn’t see the marriage through the veil (insert any other wedding cliché here) and that’s ok. But now as we head into 2012; the year of our wedding, the year I become a Mrs – I am just excited that I finally get to marry my boy. And I’d even do it in the presence of chair covers and scatter crystals… ok, maybe that’s taking things too far.

Hopefully not that far…I think we all set out with this “idea” in mind, but often can’t put that idea in to words, let alone a genre, colour theme or style. The thing is, on the day, it will be exactly how you intended from the beginning, whether its vintage, modern, shabby or bohemian, it is your wedding day, and it will be the most wonderful day ever.

It’s heart-warming and a wonderful winter/Christmas palette for the home, or for your wedding.

Did you enjoy Laura’s wedding yesterday? Its officially 5 days till Christmas, you know when you have hit the 20s on the advent calender that you are nearly there. Christmas eve is my most treasured day of the year. The anticipation, the excitement, the wonderful TV, copious amounts of mulled wine and my mothers fish pie.

Here are some things my mighty iphone captured over the weekend…

Are you ready? Are you excited? Do you like blue and gold? Have you asked for a puppy/Canon EOS for Christmas but think you’ll get neither? Me too.

I believe that Laura has graced the pages of this blog a couple of times before, the latest was to do with the Brides Up North tweet up we attended together. Having spoken to Laura for months on twitter, we had our first encounter in a pub before going to the tweet up. We were in the same boat, we laughed nervously, we drank, we networked, we got lots of sweets, took lots of photos and we left. It was wonderful. I then suggested an xfactor style sleepover chez moi, she brought along her beautiful pup Daisy, Diet Coke, and salt & vinegar chip sticks. From that day forth I declared us the best of friends and I wanted her to stay for forever.Continue reading →

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